DCHP-3

tom-rocker

Placer Mining
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a kind of cradle operated by one man and used to wash gold from gravel.

Quotations

1936
His equipment was of the simplest -- a shovel, two buckets and a tom-rocker, which sat over at the creek edge, convenient to water.